Should bronze metal Olympic winner Scotty Lago have been sent home over sexy paparazzi photos?
Snowboarder Scotty Lago scored an Olympic bronze medal for the halfpipe at the 2010 Winter Games and then scored again later on the streets of Vancouver when he got his medal polished by an unknown girl with an erotic appetite for bronze. Unfortunately that second score was captured in a couple racy photos posted on the internet, and the backlash has resulted in Scotty packing his bags and leaving Vancouver early.
TMZ posted the photos (you can see them here) of a young woman kissing Scotty Lago’s medal near his crotch area (while he exposes Olympic-class abs that might give The Situation a run for his money), and then biting the medal in another photo, all while Lago wears a “Team USA” shirt. Once the pictures appeared online and spread, Lago apologized to the U.S. Olympic Committee and voluntarily went home.
The incident has sparked a good deal of debate over whether or not too much was made of the photos. The inclusion of “extreme” sports in the Winter Olympics has provided a much-needed injection of youth and excitement into the difficult to market sibling of the Summer Games, and part of that is because those sports have athletes that are a bit edgy and rebellious – or rock and roll if you will. So is it a contradiction for the Winter Olympics to cash in on this rebellious energy and then expect those athletes to “tame it down” while off the ice or snow?
What do you think?
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